1953: Clemson baseball's 1st recorded walk off HR - with the game tied 12-12 in the bottom of the 14th inning, Freshman LF Bill Barnett steps to the plate and hammers a solo blast to give the Tigers a 13-12 win over Furman. Playing RF in this game was Doug Kingsmore.

1972: Rod Stewart and the Faces, rescheduled from November 20, in Littlejohn Coliseum, with Fleetwood Mac, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.25 for general admission, $6.25 on the floor.

1976: The Buzzard is published. Front page headline: "Tate's Final Mistakes" about disgraced basketball coach Tates Locke. Excellent illustrations by Tiger artist Matt Crawford parody images described in Woodward & Bernstein's account of the downfall of President Richard Nixon over the Watergate scandal, with Nixon's praying with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger incident rendered as Tates Locke praying with Athletic Director Bill McClellan.

1978: Sixth annual Bengal Ball held at the Y Beach beginning at 1 p.m., tickets are $3, limited to 4,000. Music by Overland Express with Bill Haney and the Zassoff Boys.

1979: The First annual Fiji-Shriner Celebrity Run held, a 30-mile relay sponsored by Phi Gamma Delta fraternity to raise money for the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children of Greenville. Clemson athletes Chubby Wells and Derek Johnson anchor the run which begins on Bowman Field at 9 a.m., reaching the hospital on Pleasantburg Drive at 2 p.m.